Right to Life has received the Broadcasting Standards Authority decision on a complaint made by Right to Life (and Family First) following the interview of Cecile Richards the CEO of Planned Parenthood of America on Radio New Zealand’s Saturday Morning programme. New Zealand’s Family Planning is of course an affiliate and daughter body of Planned Parenthood International. These organisations are at the forefront of promoting the abortion killing of unborn children under the guise of providing ‘reproductive rights’. The picture show Cecile Richards (on left -first photo)

The decision of the Broadcasting Standards Authority was most disappointing but not unexpected. Right to Life is committed to challenge any programme on radio or Television that undermines the right to life of human beings from conception to natural death.

For the BSA to say that this programme was not required to meet the requirements of the Code of Practice is respectfully challenged. Radio NZ claims that this was an in-depth interview which added to New Zealander’s overall intellectual understanding in a broad sense. This interview was certainly not an in depth interview and would have left listeners believing that Planned Parenthood was an advocate for women and was providing a wonderful service to the community. I readily agree that the activities of Planned Parenthood is not a matter of controversy for many New Zealanders. The reason for this is that the media have worked hard to ensure that the populace is not informed of the damage this organisation is inflicting on communities in the United States.

I wish to lodge a formal complaint against an article titled, ‘New contraception slows abortion rates’. This article was published on July 1 in section A5. It is alleged that the article is in breach of Principle 1, Accuracy, fairness and balance. Our submission is that in articles of controversy or disagreement and that a fair voice must be given to the opposition view.

Right to Life is pro-women, pro-family and has as its main objective to defend the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death. This article had important comment from the Family Planning Association of New Zealand (FPA) on the very important subject of the abortion statistics for 2012. There was no comment from any pro-life organisation. We make the following points regarding the FPA.

It is the major abortion referral agency in New Zealand.

It supports the killing of unborn children as a backup for failed contraception. This is not a lawful ground for abortion in New Zealand.

I wish to lodge a formal complaint against an item that was presented in an item in the 6pm News on Wednesday 19 June 2013. The item was concerning the abortion statistics for 2012 released that day by Statistics New Zealand.

The pro-life movement is disappointed that one of the following organisations was not contacted and invited to make an informed comment on the very important abortion statistics for 2012…

My complaint is that the item included comment only from the pro-abortion organisation Abortion Law Reform Association, (ALRANZ). This organisation has a national membership of about 100 members and clearly has very minimal support in the community. The organisation is currently conducting with the New Zealand Family Planning Association a national campaign to have abortion decriminalised; this would remove any legal protection for the right to life of children in the womb. A woman would then be able to request an abortion for any reason or for no reason for the whole nine months of pregnancy up to birth.

The following headline and post is from LifeNews and highlights the conspiracy of silence from the mainstream media on these foul doings.

Networks Give Rutgers Scandal 41 Minutes, Gosnell Abortion Horrors 0

The Rutgers basketball story continues to transfix the media, and why shouldn’t it? Mike Rice, the disgraced former Rutgers basketball coach allegedly killed a woman and at least seven viable, born-alive babies “by plunging scissors into their spinal cords” in his filthy, macabre “house of horrors” abortion clinic.

Oh wait, my mistake.

Rice was fired last week from Rutgers over video of him shoving, kicking and yelling at his players, throwing basketballs at them and – most damning – using “homophobic slurs.” That’s made Rice the most notorious villain in America. And in one week it earned him 36 network news stories clocking in at 41 minutes, 26 seconds of air time on ABC, CBS and NBC.

Now, had Rice been accused of killing a woman and eight babies, he’d be enjoying the same anonymity as Kermit Gosnell– provided the killings were carried out in an abortion clinic

I wish to lay a complaint against a statement made in an article written by Marika Hill, titled “Family Planning Association’s charity status comes under fire.” This article was published in the Sunday Star Times edition of January 27 in news A5. The article states:

“Anti-abortionists are taking aim at the charity status of the Family Planning Association in their latest assault against women and pro-choice organisations.”

This statement is false, slanderous and libellous. Our complaint is that this statement breached the Press Council’s Statement of Principles number one, Accuracy, Fairness and Balance. Publications should be bound at all times by accuracy, fairness and balance and should not deliberately mislead or misinform readers by commission or omission.

In response to the comments of the Editor of the Daily Post as the alleged threats were made anonymously it is an assumption to say that they came from a pro-life group. There is simply no proof that the alleged threats came from a pro-life group or in fact from any organisation.

The principles of good journalism require that a journalist should check the source of information. It is disappointing that it would appear that no journalist has actually had a hard copy of the alleged threats. It is conceivable that the alleged threats were contrived by the Abortion Law Reform Association with the objective of discrediting the pro-life movement and to distract the attention of people away from the real violence which is inflicted on women and their helpless unborn.

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“Women must have control over their own bodies.”, “Safe and legal abortion is every woman’s right.”, “Who decides? You decide!”, “Freedom of choice — a basic American right.”, “I remember laughing when we made those slogans up,”…. “We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.”

— Bernard Nathanson co-founder and first president National Abortion Right Action League (Former Abortionist who personally took responsibility for 50,000 unborn children’s deaths). Dr Nathanson later became a prominant Pro-life actiivist, calliing abortion

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